Download or read book Melville and Melville Studies in Japan written by Kenzabuo Ohashi and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-07-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's introduction to Western literature came though American literature, as things European were imported to Japan via the United States. Prior to World War II, the Japanese read such writers as Washington Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, partly to practice their English. Today these writers are less popular in Japan, but younger Japanese scholars are turning more and more attention to Herman Melville. This book is the first English-language volume of Japanese scholarship on Melville. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in Japan, it presents a variety of attitudes from the traditional to the new. Following the introduction, the volume opens with a chapter by Kenzaburo Ohashi on Melville's reception in Japan. The next chapter discusses the literary interaction between Hawthorne and Melville after Moby-Dick, and is followed by two chapters on Moby-Dick. Chapter 5 discusses Melville's transcendentalism. Additional chapters cover Israel Porter The Confidence Man, Clarel, Melville's later poetry, and Billy Budd. The work concludes with a bibliographical essay on Japanese scholarship and includes a full subject index.
Download or read book A Bibliography of Herman Melville Studies in Japan written by Masao Tsunematsu and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Wave written by Christopher Benfey and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern state, ultimately transforming itself, in the course of twenty-five years, from a feudal backwater to an international power. This great wave of historical and cultural reciprocity between the two young nations, which intensified during the late 1800s, brought with it some larger-than-life personalities, as the lure of unknown foreign cultures prompted pilgrimages back and forth across the Pacific. In The Great Wave, Benfey tells the story of the tightly knit group of nineteenth-century travelers—connoisseurs, collectors, and scientists—who dedicated themselves to exploring and preserving Old Japan. As Benfey writes, “A sense of urgency impelled them, for they were convinced—Darwinians that they were—that their quarry was on the verge of extinction.” These travelers include Herman Melville, whose Pequod is “shadowed by hostile and mysterious Japan”; the historian Henry Adams and the artist John La Farge, who go to Japan on an art-collecting trip and find exotic adventures; Lafcadio Hearn, who marries a samurai’s daughter and becomes Japan’s preeminent spokesman in the West; Mabel Loomis Todd, the first woman to climb Mt. Fuji; Edward Sylvester Morse, who becomes the world’s leading expert on both Japanese marine life and Japanese architecture; the astronomer Percival Lowell, who spends ten years in the East and writes seminal works on Japanese culture before turning his restless attention to life on Mars; and President (and judo enthusiast) Theodore Roosevelt. As well, we learn of famous Easterners come West, including Kakuzo Okakura, whose The Book of Tea became a cult favorite, and Shuzo Kuki, a leading philosopher of his time, who studied with Heidegger and tutored Sartre. Finally, as Benfey writes, his meditation on cultural identity “seeks to capture a shared mood in both the Gilded Age and the Meiji Era, amid superficial promise and prosperity, of an overmastering sense of precariousness and impending peril.”
Download or read book Whole Oceans Away written by Jill Barnum and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Melville and the culture of the Pacific "Like the young Melville, those who imagine Polynesia from the perspective of Europe or North America tend to envision a tropical garden set in a shining sea. But the Pacific experienced by a runaway American sailor in an earlier century presents a different picture, and the Pacifi c experienced by indigenous peoples of today a different one yet."-- from the Introduction Herman Melville had a lifelong fascination with the Pacific and with the diverse island cultures that dotted this vast ocean. The essays in this collection articulate the intersection of Western and Pacific perspectives in Melville's work, from his early writings based on ocean voyages and encounters in the Pacific to Western modes of thought in relation to race and national identity. These essays interrogate familiar themes of Western colonialism while introducing fresh insights, including Melville's use of Pacific cartography, the art of tattooing, and his interest in evolutionary science. Using a variety of methodologies and approaches--postcolonial theory, cultural studies, linguistics, performance theory--"Whole Oceans Away" offers a valuable body of criticism for students of nineteenth-century American literature and history, cultural studies, and Pacific Rim studies.
Download or read book Melville studies in American culture written by [Anonymus AC02812138] and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Melville Among the Nations written by Sanford E. Marovitz and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in July 1997, scholars from around the world met in Volos, Greece, to discuss the work of American writer and international traveler Herman Melville. Offering insights into Melville the man and Melville the artist, the papers presented at this conference reflected a variety of interdisciplinary, international, and intergenerational perspectives. With the participation of esteemed Melville critics and many young scholars gaining recognition for their innovative and incisive work in the area of Melville studies, this unique conference afforded all who attended an overview of current approaches to Melville and detailed thermatic examinations of his specific works and themes.
Download or read book A Companion to Herman Melville written by Wyn Kelley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy Reveals Melville as a more contemporary writer than his critics have sometimes assumed
Download or read book Melville in the South Seas written by Charles Roberts Anderson and published by Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature, 138. This book was released on 1939 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the life and works of Melville while also presenting an analysis of his technique of composition.
Download or read book A Companion to Melville Studies written by John Bryant and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986-11-18 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 25 separate articles, scholars with a wide variety of perspectives explore Melville's texts, assess the weaknesses and strengths of existing scholarship, and suggest directions for future study. Part I considers what is known of Melville's life, his travels, and his relation to New York literati. Part II summarizes each of Melville's works, surveys reception from early reviews to recent criticism, and indicates current problems. Parts 3 and 4 probe Melville's conceptions of society, language, religion, and psychology as well as his art, comedy, tragedy and aesthetics. Part 5 traces his relation to, and effect on 20th century writers, intellectuals, and popular culture. ISBN 0-313-23874-X : $85.00.
Download or read book Melville Bibliography 1952 1957 written by Melville Society. Bibliographic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacifism and Rebellion in the Writings of Herman Melville written by John Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Melville Studies written by Cody Marrs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.
Download or read book Melville Studies written by Norman E. Jarrard and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Melville s Journals Lectures and Letters written by Therman Benjamin O'Daniel and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sort of Samurai written by James Melville and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1981 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our First Glimpse of Japan written by Samuel Kidder and published by Piscataqua Press. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than 20 years after Herman Melville in Moby Dick called Japan "That double-bolted land," American tourists were arriving at Yokohama from San Francisco on the first leg of a globe-circling adventure. Our First Glimpse of Japan collects original accounts from four prominent Americans of their visits. These accounts reached a broad readership, forming impressions and opinions of Japan that continue to influence American attitudes today. The earliest of the visitors, in 1871, former Secretary of State to Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, William H. Seward experienced a Japan still uncertain of its political direction as the Meiji Restoration was just underway. By 1879, President Ulysses S. Grant spends ten weeks in a transformed Japan. Our First Glimpse of Japan reproduces the Japan portions, with spectacular lithotype illustrations of William H. Seward's Travel's Around the World (1873) and Around the World with General Grant (1879). These elegant period best sellers are introduced by Seward House and Museum's Jeff Ludwig, PhD, and Edwina Campbell, PhD, author of Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth, Ulysses S. Grant's Postpresidential Diplomacy. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's son, Charles, stayed in Japan from 1871 to 1873, spending his father's money, seeking adventure and tasting Japan's more sensuous pleasures. Charlie's journals and letters in the possession of Longfellow House in Cambridge, MA and published in Charles Appleton Longfellow: Twenty Months in Japan, are excerpted here with introductory context by Professor Julie Nootbaar of Oita University in Japan. The final book, Andrew Carnegie's Round the World, originally distributed to several hundred of his friends and contacts was published for the general public in 1884. This section is introduced by scholar of Japan's early modern business development Professor John Sagers, PhD of Linfield University. Our First Glimpse of Japan is compiled, introduced and edited by Sam Kidder, linguist, soldier, student, diplomat and executive. Kidder studied East Asian history at the graduate level at Harvard, the University of Washington in Seattle, and Yonsei University in Seoul. He enjoys reading history and strongly recommends others with that interest to take a look at original sources, many now online and many others in library collections. William H. Seward, former secretary of state, arrived Yokohama from San Francisco September 25, 1870, departed Nagasaki for China, October 14, 1870. Charles A. Longfellow, son of the famous poet, arrived Yokohama from San Francisco June 25, 1871, departed Nagasaki for China, March 13, 1873. Ulysses S. Grant, arrived Nagasaki June 21, 1879, departed Yokohama for San Francisco September 3, 1879. Andrew Carnegie, business leader, arrived Yokohama November 16, 1878, departed Nagasaki for China December 3, 1878.
